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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 4537
Released: September 18, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A KILLER FOLLOWS HIS INJURED TARGET TO THE HOSPITAL ON OCT. 31IN HADDONFIELD, III.
Description of Halloween II:
"You can't kill the boogeyman," explains John Carpenter in Halloween, and to prove it he brings Michael Myers back in this handsome but grisly sequel. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode but spends most of her time cowering in a hospital gown, and Donald Pleasence runs around like a maniac as the panicky doctor desperate to hunt down Myers before he kills again. Carpenter writes and produces with partner Debra Hill, and together they replace the mystery and uncertainty of the original with an exponentially bigger body count and some strange tales about the Druids and pagan ceremonies, and the now-familiar family ties between Michael and Laurie. First-time director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys) paces the film at a brisk jog and directs it with a clean, crisp style, taking the murders out of the dark to display them in all their nasty detail. --Sean Axmaker
Halloween II Reviews:
The only good Halloween Sequel 
2009-12-08 - This sequel is fantastic as far as most movie sequels come. I really liked how the film started directly after the first which made for good back to back viewing. The acting is still great, Donald Pleasence still is fantastic and also is Jamie Lee Curtis. Michael Myers is also quite good in the film. He is a great stalker and adds alot of suspense when needed. The one thing I didn't like about it was the amount of blood. I don't like excessive blood in movies and thats why I liked the first movie so much. I also didn't like how Michael killed people in a variety of ways instead of just using his knife and his own hands.
I really liked the first Halloween and I also enjoyed Halloween 2. I did have one major problem. This should have been the only sequel to Halloween. You see Micheal burn to death and you are sure Dr. Loomis blew up in the explosion. They just wanted to maake all of the other sequels for money. I just pretend all of the other halloween movies don't exist and thats why I only own Halloween 2.
If you liked the first film, I suggest getting this one, but don't get any of the other sequels.
Mike at his best 
2009-11-30 - Hands down both Halloween 1 and 2 where the very best of the series. I have seen both many, many times and still can't get enough.
excellent sequel that deserves a blu ray release
2009-11-04 - This was a big hit at the time and the reason for it was that it was a direct sequel of the first with the two main cast members Donald Pleasance and Jamie lee curtis continuing the story. In this one Michael is still killing off everyone around his sister to terrorize her, before he finally finishes her off. But she of course is trying to survive and so it goes. The dvd is well done but a blu ray release is needed with perhaps halloween 3 as a bonus movie on it. This is great horror and well worth seeing ONLY after you see the original Halloween.
Halloween II -A great Sequel.
2009-11-01 - Halloween Parts 1 And 2, Are Definitive Horror Movie Classics,It is disturbing yes, Disturbing as you would see On any night of News Coverage on Television,or as Disturbing as People's everyday Declining Morals,But the movie is What Horror Movies Should be, Not meant to Glamorize Crime,but that there is Evil In the World sadly. This movie is not the typical Gore Zombie Movie,But it will creep you out!Not to mention the Eerie track!Donald Pleasence is awesome as is a Beautiful Jamie Lee Curtis Before she ruined her hair!and Unlike Part 3(WHY!??) Part 2 Is a Great Sequel,which is rare,given that Sometimes Sequels are horrible.
November 1, 1978
2009-10-28 - I like to think of Halloween II as a movie that takes place mostly in the early morning hours of November 1, 1978. This sequel to Halloween is generally a good movie that is designed to be a continuation of the night of October 31, 1978, when Michael Myers terrorized the babysitting Laurie Strode and her friends, one of which was also babysitting, while others were just goofing around having a good time. Halloween is a classic. That movie ends with Michael Myers being shot by Dr. Sam Loomis, only to run away seconds later. That was supposed to be it. John Carpenter and Debra Hill did not have a sequel in mind. But they were pressured into making a sequel. John Carpenter has said that when it was time to write the screenplay he was drawing a blank. He didn't know what to write. Finally he started to come up with ideas, even going as far as making Laurie Strode Michael Myers' sister. Now that is a sign of somebody who is trying to come up with a screenplay for a movie he didn't even want to make (see my review of Halloween III - Season Of The Witch for a more thorough analysis) You see, the original game plan after Halloween was to make a different Halloween movie every year with a completely different story and theme than the previous movie, sort of like the old The Twilight Zone TV show. Michael Myers was never meant to keep appearing in movie after movie. It was supposed to stop after Halloween. Well, OK, they made the second movie, so it was supposed to stop after Halloween II, when Michael Myers burned to death. It did. For one movie. Halloween III did not have Michael Myers in it. It's a great movie that goes in the direction that Carpenter and Hill wanted to go into after Halloween - making a different Halloween movie every year with an entirely different story. The general public didn't like Halloween III. Carpenter and Hill then ended their involvement with the franchise.
Now about Halloween II...
This movie begins with showing the last few moments of Halloween, when Michael Myers is shot by Dr. Loomis. This footage is mostly alternate unused takes shot while Halloween was being filmed in 1978, while some of the footage are the actual takes that were used in the first movie. If you pay attention, you'll notice that Loomis fires seven shots at Michael Myers. In the first movie, he fires six. Anyway, Myers gets away and starts to stalk around town. It is clear that this movie was influenced by the movies that were coming out at the time that featured lots of blood and splatter scenes. It's unfortunate, because Halloween didn't rely on blood to be effective. But in Halloween II it seems that Carpenter and Hill were feeling the pressure of the marketplace, so they made it like a Friday The 13th movie as far as the blood and gore goes. To sum up the story, Michael Myers is trying to find his SISTER Laurie Strode, who was taken to the hospital after being injured in the first Halloween. Myers stalks her at the near empty (and creepy) hospital and kills some of the hospital staff along the way. At the end of the movie it appears that Michael Myers has burned to death. He DID burn to death after Dr. Loomis flicks his lighter while gas fills the air that causes an explosion. In fact, you have to believe that Loomis was killed in that explosion, also. But seven years later there was this movie that came out called Halloween 4 - The Return Of Michael Myers. What it really was was an opportunity to resurrect Michael Myers for the sake of making $$$$. If Jason Voorhees and Freddie Krueger are invincible, why not make Michael Myers invincible? It means $$$$, plain and simple. If there's anything good about the continuation of the series beginning with Halloween 4, it's that at least John Carpenter and Debra Hill weren't involved. They were long gone, because they were smart. The first Halloween movie was an independent film. That's one reason why it's so good. Once Hollywood takes over a franchise, forget it. That's why the whole series is so screwed up. There is no continuity. Halloween H2O is really the sequel to Halloween II.
The musical score to Halloween II is good, but not as good as the first movie. The movie overall just doesn't compare to the first one, but it is still a pretty good movie. A lot of the feel of the first movie was absent in this second movie, though it does get major points for the creepy atmosphere at the hospital late at night. You'll see some things that make this "continuation of the night" seem like a different movie altogether. But if you take this movie at face value, it IS an entertaining movie. Just not the same as the first one. 4 stars
